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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 21, 1946
By BILL SIMS
Coach Don Faurot of the Missouri Tigers has graciously bestowed the 1846 Big Six football championship upon the Jayhawkers, according to C. E. McBride, sports editor of the Kansas City Star.
It is about this time of year that opposing coaches start giving away the conference title, and you will hear periodically from now until next fall the moans and groans of all the head men of the football staffs.
The question was brought up when Missouri's trainer said that the Tigers would go to the Rose Bowl next January 1 if they ever went. So Faurot promptly shed some crocodile tails about Missouri's chances in the Big Six race next fall.
Perhaps Faurot was trying to put George Sauer on the spot, but I don't believe he can succeed that way. Jayhawker students and fans know that Kansas will have too many weak spots to challenge the Tigers and Oklahoma Sooners for the title next fall.
If Faurot would be so kind as to send about a dozen of his more than ample supply of good linesmen to Kansas, the Jayhawkers might have a chance for the championship. But you can't win the conference title with an inexperienced line, regardless of backfield strength.
It will be a big mistake for anyone to start thinking in terms of a Big Six championship for the Jayhawkers next fall. Perhaps in two or three years the title may become a reality on the Kansas campus. At any rate, Jayhawker football destiny is looking up.
The Jayhawkers have made rapid strides in Big Six sports this year, and they should continue to do so next year. Kansas won three league championships, more than any other school.
The basketball, outdoor track, and tennis teams were undefeated in conference competition. It is a real feat for one school to produce three unbeaten champions, but the Jayhawkers hope to repeat in all three sports next year.
Kansas finished second in golf, fifth in football, fifth in indoor track, and fifth in baseball for a record that is much better than that of last year. But it can stand a lot of improvement, and I believe we have the coaches who can put the Jayhawkers right up at the top of the heap in Big Six athletics.
Sidelights . . . Several Nebraska sports writers and fans at Lincoln asked me what the Jayhawkers thought of George Sauer, and I got the impression that perhaps they would liked to have had him at Nebraska next year...
Coach Dana X. Bible of Texas has come out with the recommendation that colleges not be allowed to contact high school athletes. I wonder whether the fact that he will have 65 lettermen back next fall had anything to do with his suggestion.
Another item from down Texas way concerns Bobby Layne, the boy who passed and ran the Longhorns to victory over the Missouri Tigers in the Cotton Bowl this year. Texas won 10 baseball games to take the league title with a perfect record, and Layne hurled seven of those 10.
Bob Fenimore, star Oklahoma Aggie halfback who will be drafted this month, may perform for Army on the gridiron next fall.
Baseball Results
**American League**
Cleveland 4, New York 3.
Washington 10, Chicago 2.
(Only games scheduled.)
**National League**
Brooklyn 4, Cincinnati 3 (night).
Chicago 6, Boston 4 (night).
(Only games scheduled.)
Chandler Speaks at Solomon
Chandler Speaks at Solomon Prof. H. E. Chandler of the teacher's appointment bureau will deliver the commencement address at Solomon high school tonight and at Lincoln high school on Thursday.
Bandman Beach Is Confused by Danneberg Interested in Medicine, Advertising, Nancy
JOHN BEACH
John Wesley Beach, organizer, director and first trumpet player for the Johnnie Beach orchestra, has one ambition in life these days—to figure out his business manager, J. R. Danneberg.
A month or so ago the manager of the Estes Park dance pavilion came through Lawrence and stopped off to audition the Beach boys. Beach thought he had a contract for the summer sewed up, but Danneberg said that he could get a better price.
So out went Danneberg with the dance club owner, spent an evening talking business, and came back with glowing reports of his success in making a deal. Since then they haven't heard one word from the manager and no contract has arrived.
That was until yesterday. The manager called, arranged for the Beach band to come out to Estes park for the last part of the summer, agreed to all the terms in Danneberg's offer and wished them good luck. Now Beach is trying to decide whether Danneberg has been holding out on him or whether the lad is just lucky as a business manager.
Beach is a pre-medical student who got his start in the navy V-12 program at Louisiana State university. After several months of service as a pharmacist's mate on training vessels off the coast of the States, he was sent to Harvard where he
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Beach, a College senior from Newton, has one other main interest in life beside the band—the president of the Kappa house. Nancy Georing, who also comes from Newton, has a fine moral influence on Beach, too. He had the glass top of his desk literally papered with pin-up pictures retained from his navy days, but Nancy gave Johnnie her picture—the picture went under the glass top and the pin-ups went in the fire.
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Johnnie is interested in other fields too. He's a fair golfer and plays in all the intramural sports activities entered by Tau Kappa Epsilon of which he's a member. He was president of the pledge class, and since being initiated has been serving as social chairman for the fraternity. Although he can enter med school next fall, he's thinking of going into advertising for he got a taste of selling advertising for the navy paper at L.S.U. and he thinks it's a lot more fun than dispensing pills.
'Babe' Doubts He'll Get Any Mexican Offer
Mexico City. (UP)—Home run king Babe Ruth doubted today that he would receive an offer to become the Happy Chandler of the Mexican league and emphasized that he didn't think he would accept a position as its baseball commissioner if he did get a bid.
"I'm having a good time, but I haven't even talked baseball with Jorge Pasquel, the Mexican league president," he said.
Seven Racers Qualify For Speedway Derby
"It is nice to be his guest, but I haven't received an offer from him."
Indianapolis, (UP)—Seven drivers had qualified today for the 1946 Indianapolis motor speedway Memorial day classic.
Ted Horn, driving the same 8-cylinder Maserati that Wilbur Shaw twice piloted to victory in the 500-mile race, turned in the fastest time in Monday's qualifying run. Horn averaged 123,980 miles an hour for the required 10 miles.
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